Position in chronology
Sargon II 055
Translation — scholar edition
RINAP 2(1) Sargon (II), king of the world, king of Assyria, built the temple of the gods Sîn (and) Šamaš, his lords, that is inside the city Dūr-Šarrukīn from its foundations to its crenellations (5) for the sake of his life, the firm establishment of his reign, the success of the harvest of Assyria, (and) the well-being of Assyria.
Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period, volume 2 — scholar edition (ORACC).
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Transliteration
mMAN-GIN MAN ŠÚ MAN KUR aš-šur.KI / É d30 dUTU EN.MEŠ-šú / šá ŠÀ URU.BÀD-mMAN-GIN / TA UŠ₈-šú a-di gaba-dib-bi-šú / ana TI-šú GIN BALA.MEŠ-šú / SI.SÁ e-bur KUR aš-šur.KI / šá-lam KUR aš-šur DÙ-uš
Scholarly note
Royal inscription of Sargon II, edited by Grant Frame (RINAP 2, 2021). ORACC text Q006536.
Attribution
Image: Created by Grant Frame and the Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period (RINAP) Project, 2019. Adapted for RINAP Online by Joshua Jeffers and Jamie Novotny and lemmatized by Giulia Lentini, Nathan Morello, and Jamie Novotny, 2019, for the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded OIMEA Project at the Historisches Seminar - Abteilung Alte Geschichte of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. The annotated edition is released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license 3.0..
Translation excerpted from Frame, G. 2021. The Royal Inscriptions of Sargon II, King of Assyria (721–705 BC). RINAP 2. University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns. https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/rinap/rinap2/Q006536/.
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